The Academy of Empire Lucradian was established for the purpose of nurturing civilians into knights or sorcerers.
The Academy values people who are blessed with mana much more than their other students since, unlike aura which you can get by stigmatization, a person can only gain mana in one way and that is through being chosen by it.
By being chosen by mana the person will be granted a mana core inside his body, and with that mana core, he or she will gain the ability to manipulate mana.
But I wonder how would the entire world react when they find out I who haven't gone under stigmatization already have the ability to manifest aura?
Would they treat me as some sort of prodigy? or would they kidnap me and experiment on me against my will?
In any case, standing out would not be a good thing to do.
I was currently in the gym working out, trying to gain the muscle that I used to have prior to regressing.
But it was already getting late so I started to gather my things and go home.
The nightlife of the Empire, the blinding lights, the empire that never sleeps, bright even when it's night.
"I missed this,"
In my past life, I would often go out and indulge myself in parties and just get batshit drunk without a care in the world, but this time I wouldn't waste a single second.
I need to get stronger.
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As I got home, the first thing I did was take a quick shower.
I look in the mirror and see the Mark of the Shieldbearer embedded in my left shoulder.
A tower shield with a dove in the middle.
The mark was almost the size of a small apple making it not quite large but still visible.
It doesn't resemble like any of the marks by the 7 gods that I have seen, it looks more similar to a tattoo.
I went out of the bathroom and sat down on the couch in the living room.
I started meditating and practiced controlling the azure aura.
Slowly and surely I was getting better at manipulating it.
I would say I was at the C+ tier of manipulation.
But I am not 100% sure since you need to be tested at the academy to know the accurate results of your aura control and I can't really do that since they would ask how am I able to manifest aura when I don't have a stigma yada-yada-yada.
I meditated for over 3 hours and when I finally stop to take a break, I realized it was already 9 am.
I would have gone straight to bed because of how tired I felt mentally and physically from working out and meditating but I had something to do first.
I am a very organized person and after giving myself the pleasure of experiencing the life that I longed for.
It is time to get serious and start making a plan.
Based on my memories the demons would suddenly appear out of nowhere and declare war on us about 10 years from now.
I would need to figure out how to gain strength that is on par or better than the heroes of this time.
I would need to learn how those heroes who had the blessings of the gods were still defeated by the hands of those fiends.
How beings that were long thought to be eradicated would appear seemingly out of nowhere with numbers greater than us.
I would need to figure out how humanity fell so that I can prevent it.
But let's focus on one problem at a time, first, to gain strength I would need to be ingrained with the sword stigma so that I can manifest an offensive aura.
In my past life, all that I ever could do was block and parry, I had no means to deal any kind of injury to a demon.
Well, not anymore, this time, in this life, I'll go with the sword.
I looked at the calendar on my phone, a week has already passed by.
After one more week, my days in the academy will start again.
I will need to leave this apartment of mine that originally belonged to my parents to live in their dorms.
In my past life after I was stigmatized with the shield, I was placed in Division C.
Which was the lowest division out of the 4.
To get into Division S you would need to reach C Tier in aura efficiency and manipulation.
I only achieved C Tier aura control years after my academy days by experience so I wasn't able to get into Division S in my past life.
There are 7 tiers.
F - The lowest of the tier, most people who are recently stigmatized will start in this tier.
E - People who are at this tier would be labeled as below average not the best but also not the worst.
D - This is the tier that is the norm or the global average among stigmatized people, most of them are satisfied with this tier as this would land them a decently paying job which was the main goal of almost all of the people enrolling in the academy.
C - The tier that would make people recognize that you have a talent for aura, this is the tier that would make you above average than the rest.
B - A tier that would only be achieved by people that truly have talent in aura control and efficiency.
A - The tier that is only achievable by those who have more than talent, they would need huge amounts of effort paired with a level of talent akin to prodigies, it is the epitome of what a normal person could achieve through years of consistent training.
S - This tier would not be discovered after a few years from now, there is only one person that showed this level of monstrous control, it is the one and only bearer of the Mark of War, Fransesca Amberborne. She would manifest the purest and most controlled level of offensive aura that would pierce even through hordes of demons with one swing.
I managed to achieve the C tier level of aura control in the stigma of the shield in my past life but the question is can I do the same to its offensive counterpart?
Only time will tell.